PowerFlex is a software-defined storage platform designed to significantly reduce operational and infrastructure complexity, empowering organizations to move faster by delivering flexibility, elasticity, and simplicity with predictable performance and resiliency at scale. The PowerFlex family provides a foundation that combines compute as well as high performance storage resources in a managed unified fabric. PowerFlex comes in flexible deployment options - rack, appliance, or ready nodes-that enables disaggregated (two-layer), HCI (single-layer), or mixed architectures. PowerFlex is ideal for high performance applications and databases, building an agile private cloud, or consolidating resources in heterogeneous environments.

Figure 1.              PowerFlex family

PowerFlex 3.5

This white paper is based on PowerFlex v3.5.1.2 and following are the highlights of new features in this version:

• Native asynchronous replication for two-layer or storage-only deployments.
• HTML-5 based GUI
• Protected maintenance mode
• Secure snapshots
• Enhanced life cycle mode capabilities
• SDC Authentication

For more details, see PowerFlex 3.5 Release Notes.